Comment on CounterSide is fully free and single player now
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2 weeks agoI played it until July 2023, so I can only speak until then.
The setting is like SCP Foundation, except the latest big containment breach (which happened a few decades before the main story) is being managed, but was never really stopped. There are competing factions who try to offer their own solutions for fixing the SCP Foundation’s titanic fuck-up. My absolute favorite story in this game is the two side stories focused on the Horizon character - basically a story about an unstoppable terminator who wants to personally give a dude who screwed her and her friends over a horrible death.
The gameplay is a line battler. You control when and where your units spawn in, and you control when they launch their ultimates, but things otherwise are left to the AI.
There’s a dupe system and a very punishing gear system, but since there are console commands, those aren’t so bad anymore. You can just grab what you want and get to work.
regdog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So if the unwanted grind aspect can be removed from the game, would you say that CounterSide is now better than ever?
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’d say so. The story is pretty good, and you can use console commands to give you whatever resources you want. You can play the game as the biggest gacha megawhale that every existed at the low cost of free.
The gameplay also requires some tactical thinking in the later stages. For example, if there’s an enemy unit that constantly heals itself to full, you can drop a unit that specializes in healing reflux (Awakened Seo Yoon - any healing causes equivalent damage instead). One of the Awakened characters - Replacer King - has a mechanic I very much enjoy where he resurrects your units as zombies when they die, and he gets an upgrade to his punches (he can then punch across the map) when he performs a resurrection.